{"id":1003604,"date":"2026-04-18T10:40:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003604"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:40:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:10:47","slug":"australian-tycoon-battles-meta-over-fake-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/18\/australian-tycoon-battles-meta-over-fake-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian tycoon battles Meta over fake ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest is asking a US federal court in Silicon Valley to hold Meta accountable for scam ads using his likeness without permission. <\/p>\n<p>Forrest&#8217;s legal team is asking a judge to rule that the social media colossus cannot hide behind Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act that spares internet firms from being accountable for content posted by users on its platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest is asking a US federal court in Silicon Valley to hold Meta accountable for scam ads using his likeness without permission. Forrest&#8217;s legal team is asking a judge to rule that the social media colossus cannot hide behind Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act that spares internet firms from being accountable for content posted by users on its platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}